The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
Our discussion groups meet on video live every weekday, below is this week’s schedule. See full calendar.
Memorial Day
No sessions today in observance of Memorial Day.
2 PM ET Making Sense of the Future
Hosted by Mohammad Khan
An interactive workshop that utilizes constraint-driven fiction to uncover professional blind spots and develop actionable strategies for shaping the future we desire.
3 PM ET [Premium] Sensemaking Lab
Hosted by Abby Covert
A monthly session for Premium members to collaboratively share and refine their work in a supportive environment.
Eid al-Adha
No sessions scheduled this Wednesday.
2 PM ET Seekers Who Make Sense
Hosted by Jasmine Ibrahim & Sam Sanford
A community for those with profound questions about existence, seeking to explore the depths of humanity and navigate the complexities of life together.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Language
Hosted by Clair Rock & Emily Nimsakont
A supportive group focused on skill-sharing and fostering inclusive language practices to enhance communication and create a safe space for difficult questions.
What’s going on?
Week of May 26, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
AI Field Notes (Monday, May 18) brought in a guest facilitation to dig into a real operational challenge: how to better automate and ethically manage the flow of meeting transcripts. Making Sense of Change (Tuesday, May 19) opened a new multi-session "survival guide" exploring what people do when unwanted change lands in their lap and there's nothing they can do about the message. Ethics Open Mic (Wednesday, May 20) ran as a small, free-form conversation that wandered through questions of institutional accountability, predatory behavior in positions of power, the job market, parenting, and the ethics of consumer marketing. Making Sense of Other Humans (Thursday, May 21) delivered part two of its bosses series, examining what power and authority actually do to the brain and to relationships — drawing on organizational psychology research alongside member stories. And Making Sense of Complexity & Chaos (Friday, May 22) closed out its season with a question borrowed from Marcus Buckingham: what if you designed for love — or at least care — rather than efficiency in complex environments?
Themes from last week:
- Navigating the gap between the official story and lived reality.
- Designing for care, connection, and dignity as a counterforce.
- Institutions protect themselves, not people.